how long for maroons to mature?

kirkland

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last may, we brought home a pair of gsm. The female had gold stripes, the male was darker maroon and had white stripes. a few months later, the male's stripes turned gold as well. they are both bigger now and seem perfectly healthy, but i would have expected that the female would rule our tank but instead, our male squareback anthias is the tank bully. would you think that eventually, our female clown will take over as the bully? she does chase fish that come too close to the bta, but she doesn't chase them from the sebae. the boy tried putting mushrooms near the bta, and she knocked them down but that's about all the aggression that she's shown. is she fully mature or is there still attitude to come?
 
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rcreations

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My female maroon has actually gotten a lot more peaceful. I only have a flame angel, yellow wrasse and bi-color blenny and she doesn't chase them away. The bi-color even made a home in a hole close to the BTA and she doesn't bother it. The wrasse doesn't get close to the anemone, it likes to swim towards the front of the tank. The flame angel swims wherever it wants, nobody gets in the way. lol
 
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